Back in the day sideshow pitchmen - not storekeepers
- coined the phrase in the title of this post.
For games of chance cigars were apparently a popular
carnival prize.
To this day when someone gets something right - or makes
a good point - someone might acknowledge their success by exclaiming: Give that man a cigar!
The corollary phrase - close but no cigar - has the same
origin.
From a recent celebration…
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